Sphyrapus Norman 1882

• Main Authors: Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bamber, Roger N., Cunha, Marina R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Tanaidacea; Sphyrapodidae; Sphyrapus; Merle; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6195550; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6195550

Genus Sphyrapus Norman, 1882 Remarks. There has been historic confusion over the authority for this genus (e.g. Sieg, 1983: 108–109; Guţu, 1980: 393; Larsen, 2005: 77), but, as Sars (1882: 18) clearly designates it as “ Sphyrapus Norman M.S. ” (“M.S.” meaning “manuscript”, not the initials of Alfred Merle Norman), then under Article 50.1. 1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the authority is Norman, 1882 (or “Norman in Sieg, 1882 ”). Conversely, while Sars (ibid.) listed four named species (including “ Sphyrapus malleolus Norman M.S. ” and “ Sphyrapus tudes Norman M.S. ”: Sars 1882, p. 20), he did not designate a type-species. As Sars’ publications of S. malleolus and S. tudes did not meet the criteria of Article 12 of the ICZN, each of the names as used in the 1882 publication becomes a nomen nudum. Norman & Stebbing (1886) described S. malleolus (and S. tudes), and designated it validly as the type-species, as it meets the requirements of Articles 67.2. 1 and 69.1 of the ICZN, and then conforms with Articles 12 and 50. The type-species of Sphyrapus is thus Sphyrapus malleolus Norman & Stebbing, 1886; the authority for Sphyrapus tudes is also Norman & Stebbing, 1886. Fortuitously, Guţu (1980; 2001) was correct, when splitting Pseudosphyrapus and Ansphyrapus (respectively) from Sphyrapus, in leaving S. malleolus (only) in Sphyrapus. Published as part of Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bamber, Roger N. & Cunha, Marina R., 2011, Apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mud-volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz (North-east Atlantic), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2919 on page 22, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.277889